Welcome Home Sister Imbach

Welcoming home Sister Mara Anne Imbach! She has just returned from serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the Frankfurt, Germany mission for the last 18 months!!

So excited to see her and have her home and so proud of her service while building her faith and testimony! Way to Return With Honor Mari Bug!!

The Penelope Lane Spring Boutique

This place is just too much fun. It's like Etsy come to life. Vendors (crazy, amazing, talented, smart, funny) come together once a season to this rad boutique at the Seal Beach Country Club put on by my girlfriend Sarah of Little Penelope Lane. HeaBug LOVES to go with me to go "shopping"... She's a dangerous one, always putting pretty things in the bag.

We browse, we sample, we chat and of course we buy. It's great because there is a centralized checkout so you just pay once. I scored on some SUPER cute things. My favorites are a vintage window with vinyl graphics from Inspired Window and a large B from Little Ms. Berry. These were the icing on the cake that is my dining room wall vignette.

Gratitude turns what we have into enough.

Such a fun girls afternoon. 2nd best part was the snagging the 1/2 off baked goods at the end of the day. Oh my the yumminess.

HeaBug turns 4!

The time is going by faster than I'd like it too. But I feel like we are getting to enjoy our children at every age and really savor them.
Our Hea Bug is truly sunshine. The is sass, she is sweetness, she is opinionated and she calls it exactly how it is.
We are so happy to be her family. We couldn't have asked for better icing on our cake. Love you girl bug. To the moon.

HeaBug LOVES going to gymnastics, she had a party at her gym. Lots of friends, lots of fun! And thank goodness for the wonderful Coaches, Ms. Whitney and Ms. Taylor for handling our 18 little ones for two hours! (And the few big ones that jumped in on the fun near the end).

Seriously, they should have gymnastics parties for adults. This would be fun.

Games and exercise and fun. That's what I'm talking about. After hosting JT's birthday with every imaginable sweet, tasty, tummy aching indulgence... We decided to go the opposite for HeaBug's party. We had two giant trays of fruit (Strawberries, Mangos and Pineapple in one and Strawberries, Pineapple, Oranges and Watermelon in the other). We had bionico toppings, crema de leche, granola, coconut and raisins -eh on the raisins. (If you've never had one, I have just the place for you to go.)
Two trays of veggies (Broccoli, carrots, tomatoes and peas) dip, hummus and this amazing herb popcorn from Trader Joes. Seriously, it's the bomb. We had only waters and then the best part was the 108 mini cupcakes from Sweet Embellishments! Tasty, tiny and adorable. They were perfect!

Always a fan of the birthday song, it was extra special that we were singing to her.

On the morning of her actual birthday, she woke up to a decorated hallway and breakfast table! The balloons had qualities that we love about her written on them. Intelligent, Clever, Sweet, Witty... Brother was awesome in helping read them to her.

I picked girfren up from school to a Surprise Car Party. Thank you dollar tree and being 10 minutes early. I popped in there for some balloons, party hats, blow horns and necklaces. Pack all that in our mini cooper and we had a downright shindig goin' on. She was so surprised and just loved it!

Kids get to choose birthday dinner. She picked Sashimi from Tokyo Hibachi. It's our favorite sushi spot. Very traditional and not jazzed up with too many sauces. Mr. B has been going there since he was smaller than HeaBug. He took me for the first time when I was 15 years old! And Yuki still makes the very best spicy tuna salad!
For the kids, we generally go to Fusion Sushi. It's close to the house, they have happy hour specials and  they're cheaper lol. Which matters when they eat sushi like grown folks! But she wanted to go to the Buddah Place. I knew exactly what she meant and we were happy to oblige. They were excited to see her in her crown and with her balloons so Auntie Meg and the ladies were sure to bring her out a candle and some ice cream. They sang to her in English and Japanese and our HeaBug was beaming ear to ear!

We sure are blessed to have this girl in our lives. She makes me laugh out loud, literally, many times a day. She also makes me want to pull my hair out at times, as  a daughter should. We love her more than she'll know and we will embrace each day of her being 4 years old the same way we did when she was three and two and one... With patience, gratitude and adoration.

Happy Birthday Breezer! Dueling pianos at Sargent Peppers

It's December! I'm still struggling with this idea. In December, we like to get our celebrate on. It's Breezer's birthday! We headed down to Sargent Pepper's in Long Beach for a night of dueling pianos. It was great fun! They decorated our seats with streamers and balloons and had a bottle of champagne on ice just for her. We listened to two amazing performers, laughed hysterically, grubbed on yummy appetizers and sang along at the top of our voices!

 Breeze is our best girl and loved by many. She is smart, funny, bright, compassionate, beautiful, charismatic, loyal, and kind.

She is the kind of friend that only comes along once in a lifetime. Those that are lucky enough to call her friend know why. She is a friend worth making and a friend worth keeping. I'm lucky enough to be her sister AND her friend.

Dueling pianos are two performers that sit across from each other on separate pianos. They play songs at the request of the audience. One writes their request on a slip of paper and sets it on one of the artist's piano with a tip. The higher the tip, the sooner your song will be played. $20 with a song moves it right to the top of the list. There was a company Christmas party at the bar that night and Breeze was the only birthday. The piano players had a great time singing to at and with her. She was such a good sport and we laughed a lot! What a fun night!

 Taking turns wearing the birthday crown. Forgive the dark pics! 

 Popping the champagne for our birthday girl. Someone sent her a birthday shot too. She drank it and said it was good but didn't know what it was. I don't drink, but took a whiff and told her she'd just had a Kamikaze.

 Breeze and two of her best girls, Jo and Tiff

We were a gang of silly gals, hanging out, being loud, getting our song and dance on in honor of Breezer, whom we all adore! Happy Birthday Sister.